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새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Merry Christmas!

(Also, you just learned how to say Merry Christmas in Korean.)

Stupid little doodles from last month I.

On Korean stuff…

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Studying Korean

mesebolt 006 + Happy Hangeul Day!

And for this occasion it's not an actual tale today but a fact in a tale style (bit of a Hungarian Folk Tales ripoff I know)

‘Because the speech of this country is different from that of China, it  does not match the [Chinese] letters. Therefore, even if the ignorant want to communicate, many of them in the end cannot state their concerns. Saddened by this, I have 28 letters newly made. It is my wish that all the people may easily learn these letters and that be convenient for daily use.’

(Sejong the Great)

I'm really impressed by both the letters and King Sejong's reign, and actually if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be studying Korean rigth now. For more about the subject of hangeul see this or in case of TLDR watch Tree With Deep Roots which is almost entirely fiction but anyways it's fun.

* the Korean kingdom's name at the time

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I'm not even surprised anyomre when cats enjoy English literature in original language, but noticing that saying Korean sentences out loud catches our rooster's attention all the time was too much even for me. Who were they in their previous lives? And more importantly, which foreign language does my dog speak?

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AKA I'm bragging again

Since I was a lazy scamp didn't had the time to do anything for today's C.H.I.P.S., let it be the thing that made me excited for the past few weeks: my drawings have been chosen to be featured in Talk To Me In Korean's
My Weekly Korean Vocabulary – Book2 as well!

I won't say more, check them out here!

How's that for a Celebrating Heaven-sent Items Poorly Systemized?!

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This time it's a Korean folk tale, The Mud Snail Bride.

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Oh yes, Korean dramas! This is how it all started, with a Korean drama, then Korean letters, then Korean language, then Korean pop, then Korean everything.

Korean dramas, they make my life a lot nicer, and what would be better to represent them than a scene about watching dramas from my current favourite drama which is about making dramas. Very meta indeed.

If you are interested in Korean dramas, you can read more about my top5 in this blogpost.

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This art on a mug or phonecase

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This time I wanted to do something different, so I made a pattern of the names of some of the bands and K-pop idols I like.

Game: The first person who can name all of them in the comment section here or on the facebook page I'll reward with a drawing (my style) of them with their favourite K-pop band/idol. (As if there was anyone here who likes K-pop…)

Introducing... A. D. A. T. O. K.!

That is...

Average Days At The Office Kitchen

On tuesdays I will post the usual daily drawings. Which lately contain mostly fragments from the office kitchen. Yay for coffe, gossip and cursing the boss! I don't say though that these will be only job-related. Sometimes, only sometimes, I have other things in my... life?...

(first drawing after the break)

Clearance Day! AKA napiraiz #135, #136, #137

It's clearance day! I post everything else I have in my posession, then next week I start introducing my new projects. Which I'll be doing in a different sketchbook just to make it a really fresh start. YAY!

But for now, here are some more vampires and you're-doing-it-wrongs. Also, bugs.

napiraiz #134 – Talk To Me In Jászkürtian

You might know that I'm studying Korean with an excellent free website, Talk To Me In Korean. They have a lot of useful stuff for people interested in Korean language or even just the culture. Besides audiolessons and pdfs they have fun videos, like the Korean Drama Phrases series.

I found though that these phrases are typical not only for K-dramas, but our office as well. So I did some illustrations making it easier for me to remember.

I'll go to your company, so that we could have some lunch together.

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So it's that time again…

This time it's more tough though, because now I also have Korea... and I also have no freetime. Whatever shall one do in such case?…

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Big in Korea

Many of you know that for a while I'm studying Korean with the help of a brilliant site called Talk To Me In Korean. They had a project lately in which listeners could submit illustrations to their upcoming vocabulary book.

This must be enough for you to guess what this post is gonna be about… Ladies and gents, my illustrations in a book that is sold everywhere around the world.

No I didn't draw the owl, that's just the cover of the book.

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For more information on Lim Kim see my previous post or listen to this.

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